| A | B |
|---|
| Border State | A slave state that did not secede. |
| Neutral | Not favoring either side. |
| Martial Law | A type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens rights are suspended |
| Blockade | A military action to prevent traffic from coming into a area or leaving it |
| Ironclad | Warships covered with protective iron plates |
| George McClellan | Union General who was a good organizer but very cautious in battle. |
| Casualty | military term for persons killed, wounded, or missing in action |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Lead the most successful Union attacks in the West, also later became president. |
| Emancipate | To Free |
| Horace Greeley | Abolitionist and Newspaper Publisher |
| Habeas Corpus | Constitutional protection against unlawed imprisonments |
| Income Tax | The government takes some of the money that people make. |
| Draft | System of required military service |
| Inflation | Additional money into circulation that leads to a general rise in prices. |
| Siege | attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside surrender. |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union General lead his soldier on a famous "March to the Sea" |
| Total War | an all out attack aimed at destroying an enemy’s army its resources and its people’s will to fight |
